The Council of Mentors is a body consisting of teachers in the doctoral study who have been appointed as mentors.

President of the Council of Mentors is Vice-Dean for science, international cooperation and postgraduate studies.

Duties of the Council of Mentors are:

• to inform candidates about research possibilities on other universities in Croatia and abroad;
• to give candidates necessary support in the application procedure for available scholarships;
• to encourage cooperation and mobility of candidates and teachers;
• to encourage visits of university teachers from partner universities;
• systematically plan the dissemination of scientific research results;
• independently or in cooperation with other institutions to organize or refer doctoral students to activities intended for public presentation of research results;
• to encourage networking and joining research projects;
• establish for each generation a list of domestic and foreign reference experts for individual research areas;
• to propose the Agenda for Doctoral Colloquium;